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THE DEEP SEA PERIL
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By VICTOR ROUSSEAU
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(Copyright by W. CL Chapman)
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THE VILLAIN MAC BEARD, POSSESSED OF THE DEAD MAS
TERMAN'S SECRET, GOES TO FIND THE ABODE OF
THE WEIRD THINGS NEAR SHETLAND
ISLANDS—HAS DEADLY PURPOSE.
Naval Lieutenant Donald Paget, Just given command of a sub
marine. meet« at Washington an old friend and distinguished though
somewhat eccentric scientist. Captain Musterman. Mustermau has just
returned from an exploring expedition, bringing with him a member of
the straiige race, the existence of whose species, he asserts,
the human family. At the club, the "Murth Hares,
plains his theory to Paget. The recital Is Interrupted by the arrival
of a lifelong enemy of Mustermatt, Ira Maclteard, and the former Is
adzed with a fatal paralytic stroke, Prom Mustermnn's body Paget
secures documents bearing upon the discovery und proceeds to the
home of the scientist. Puget proceeds to sea on his submarine, tho
F8Ö, and encounters a German cruiser. Ho sinks the enemy, which hud
destroyed the lieotla, on which Ida Kennedy, his fiancee, was n pas
senger. The girl escapes In a small boat He rescues her, but finds
himself unable to take the skiff to the submarine becuuse of invisible
forces. Paget, Ida, Midshipman Davies and Kcumuu Bum Clouts burcly
escape death. Clouts plays the mouthorgan.
menaces
Mastertnan ex
CHAPTER VI—Continued.
Donald heard him leap Into the tor
pedo room ladow. A moment later tils
voire came up the funnel. "I'm ready
for the lady, air I" he called.
Donald raised Ida In his arms and
lowered her through the tube.
"After you, air," said Davies.
"! Imve assumed command, Davie*,''
Donald replied.
"Very well, air." said the middy qui
etly, and descended. Donald followed
him. As he Jumped for the floor of
the torpedo room, bo heard the «crap
ing wound of flippera on tho floor above.
But the creaking of the conning tower
door laid ceased.
"We'ro saved I" cried Donald. "Da
vie*, they can't force the conning
hover, of course not That sound la
one or two of the beasts who lmvo
come dowu the hatches. You closed
themr
"No, sir. There wasn't time."
"Then they tried to get through the
conning tower, and hadn't reason
enough to know that they could get
through the hatches I" cried Donald
Joyfully.
"Their reason won't get them down
the tube, sir, unless they've got bodies
ss slliu us ours," said Clouts. "And
they feel like—like barrels, sir," he
added.
Overhead, the scraping continued,
sometime* approaching the tube and
then receding. Presently there came
the sound of a commotion. Donald
inferred that the sea devils hud found
tl»»» one that he had Injured, un»I that
they wer«« satiating their horrible can
nibalistic Instincts, lie heard a body
dragged this way and that, and a
dreadful rending.
After a while the swishing begun
again, and a faint tapping «>f flippers
against the walls, as If the creatur«*»
were entleavorlng to explore the In
terior of the ship. Occasionally a
futnt, phosphorescent luminosity was
visible at the t«>p Of the tube. But tint
mounters made no attempt to descend
Into the torpedo room. Ait ldeu came
to Donald.
"DaviesI Listen to me!" he snld.
"They don't know we're here,"
"Nt», »Ir. I was thinking—"
"That they have no souse of smell."
"Ye*, sir,"
"And little hearing. At least, that
they distinguish sounds only as vibra
tion*."
"Yea. sir. And of course their sense
of sight must be extremely limited.
And so. roughly, that leu
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of taste and touch, but prob
ably dcveUqu'd fur above our own."
"We'll beat them, Davies."
It was the
ded
"If that's true as they can't h«*ur
much, 1 think. If I might, sir. I'll play
a bit on my mouth organ," said Clouts.
"Just a low, humtuiug, sir."
• Ulght, Clouts." auswered Donald.
But simultaneously with the first
notes then* rame from above u singu
lar sound. It seemed to be very far
away ; It was a single, mellow note, the
G of a violin, nud exquisitely true. It
might have been a distant warning
buoy anchored amid the tides.
"What's that. Da vira?" asked Don
aid.
"I don't know, sir. The lighthouse
stoppe»! operating wheo the war brake
out. and the buoys were taken up."
Once more the souud was tirant.
Anil suddenly Donald knew that he had
heard it before, the same note, though
infinitely less powerful,
sound at the finger ou the bowl
water within the house lu Baltimore.
The acrujiiug iu the pa snug*
try and did not ra»*ur. Alt
through the night they crouched in
the torpedo room, watching and sleep
ing by turns, ntui the silence was bro
ken ouly by a passing word aud the oc
casional tunefulness of Clouts' mouth
organ as he played "Sally in Our Al
ley."
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CHAPTER VIL
Ira YtcBurd.
In MacBi-iird was one of those rare
men who are recognized by their eon
Istuporaries a» master minds. To the
mouthorgan.
public he was unknown, but
among
the leuraed he waa mentioned in the
same breuth with Faraday, Sir Isaac
Newton apd Lavoisier. Haltleld of the
March llarea' club hud once houorod
him by publicly comparing him with
Jumes I.
Ho had discovered tho secret of cold
light, and had received a fortune from
one of the largest e'ectrlcul companies
for destroying his papers,
nhled him to free himself from the
poverty in whleh he hud lived.
He hud bisected an Ion—upon a
blackboard; a thing considered theo
retically Impossible,
He lmd solved the problem of utiliz
ing solar energy, although he had not
succeeded lu making hls process valu
able commercially.
Unfortunately, like many men of
genius, MacBeurd hurt one disastrous
falling. He hurt trained himself Intel
lectually ut the expense of hls moral
faculties.
This en
He hud never learned to
control hi* primal gutter-urchin pro
pensities.
He was n thief.
He did not steal big thing*, but little
on»*», und everyone kuows thut thla Is
more damning socially.
They »•ailed It kleptomania, and let
him resign,
mania; It was theft,
reer was finished. The only club that
would admit him to membership wus
the Inventors'— and that only because
the furious bickerings of Its members
had compelled the pussuge of a rule
that there should be uo blackballing.
Anyone could Join the Inventors' club,
but only inventors wonted to.
MacBeurd, embltterctl, brooded over
hls wrongs. They assumed monstrous
proportions In hls tnlud. He wus al
ready approaching fifty; he believed
that ut death the soul perishes with
the body, and the thought t»f hls gi
gantic brain being obliterate»! filled
him with frenzy. He wanted to make
a lasting mark upon the world.
Ills first Idea was to use hls solnr
»uiergy plant to produce simultaneous
eruption* of the volcanoes lu Ituly and
Iceland. Japan nnd California upon an
unprecedented scale. A lava desert
should cover all the tilled fields and
cities, burying man u thousand f»*et
under Its surface aud obliterating civi
lisation.
But It wus not klopto
Macllcartl's ca
The Bdcnce and art of nineteen
twentieths «>f the world would dtsup
pear. MacBeurd not only hated the
world, whleh hud made him an out
cast, but he despised it Intellectuallly
ns beyond redemption. He wanted to
bestride its ruins ns a superman, u
god.
However, hls scheme had several
drawbacks. It was utterly beyond hls
fluanclal means. He could not fore
see exactly the results of It. There
were disturbing possibilities, and he
was not the man to act without mathe
matical exactitude.
Hls vengeance must take other forms.
He wante»l a less academic plan, one
which reeked less of the midnight"
lamp. He wanted a wore concrete,
personal triumph. He wanted to lend
an army to victory, not to sit back
and watch the working out of blind
forces that he hail set lu motion.
Besides, destruction must be fol
lowed by construction, to satisfy his
scientific mind.
Hls second thought was to produce
a race of men, somewhere In the tee
bound wastes of Greenland, that
*ht>uld grow to maturity In a few
years; a race organized for war, a pri
mal blend of mau anti tiger. It had
heeu »lone with the plants.
But he was too old. He would be
seventy before this plan could be car
ried to perfection. And then It was
Improbable that the details would
work out as he anticipated. Hls final
Idea rame through Musterman.
Ma*t«*ruiun wus one of the many
men whom he had broken In bis days
of power. But Masterman was of a
different caliber from the rest. Mas
torman hud tried to come back, and
had almost succeeded.
MacBeurd. at first contemptuous of
the old drraim*r, came at last to watch
Mu sternum uneasily. U« knew that
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the old captain waa crazed upon the
subject of deep-aea life; but he knew,
too, the facta that underlay bia letters
to tile newspapers.
He had sent a palter embodying tbiR
subject to the magazine of the Inven
tors' club.
Unfortunately, Ilalfleld
hud won the ballot for the editorship
thut month.
Masterman's scholarly
contribution hud been consigned to the
waste basket, and the artlclea In the
maguztne hud been as follows:
King In Masquerade," "King Jamea I
us Universal Man," "Shakespeare and
the JIM cipher," "Bacon nnd the MIJ
Cipher,"
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What Civilization Owes to
When Mastermun's proxy ballot won
the «MJltorshlp during his absence, the
printers, Instead of Inserting his latest
paper, as he hud requested, used a
quantity of his old, unpublished ma
terial.
Secretly MacBeurd had known that
the carapace which Masterman had
brought buck from the North was not
that of a stegosaurus. His attuck upon
Musterman hud been inspired by envy
und hatred. He had examined the
relic, and admitted to himself that It
wus that of an unknown deep-water
animal.
His respect for Masterman's abili
ties increased tenfold.
He bad begun spying upon the cap
tain. He broke Into his house while
he was away und rend his papers, with
out, however, learning anything of use
to him. Incldcntully, he stole u gold
presentation watch, a Chinese vase of
the Ming dynasty, and a pair of lapis
lazuli earrings which hud belonged to
Mastermun's wife.
When MucBcnrd heard the tyrst ru
mors to the effect that Masterman's
ship had been wrecked, and that all
on board hud perished, he plunned to
tit out a secret expedition to go to the
scene of the disaster and see what was
to he discovered. Then he hud seen
the captain in the dining room of the
club.
Hte had been thrown off hls guard
by Mustermun's unexpected return,
bail followed him and Donald to the
door of tho card room, and hud heard
the grenter part of the story. He hud
been unable to restrain his eagerness,
uud hud been detected spying.
Bulked In hls scheme to get posses
sion of Maateri*nD's hotter, ho had fol
lowed Donuld to> the house In Balti
more. There he hud assaulted him
nnd taken the papers from him. He
had had no Intention of killing Don
ald, whom he despised heartily. Once
the secret. In which he now firmly be
lieved, was In hls possession, there
would come no reckoning for the as
suult. lie saw hls way to Immediate
rulerNhtp over the world.
To do MacBeurd justlee, he had been
scared away, not by fear of the mon
ster, but by the realization that Mas
lermnn's terrific story wus true. After
Donuld had left the house MacBeurd
crept back. He discovered the mon
ster upon the floor, where it had pre
cipitated Itself in Its death agony. It
hud been disrupted by the Internal
pressure, under n normal atmosphere.
lie niude a quick examination of it,
sat down In the kitchen, and spent the
remainder of the night poring over
Mastermun's papers. In these he
learned much that was essential to bis
success.
He rend that the creature in the
tank was a young one, which hud not
yet acquired the power of resistance
to uu ordinary atmosphere. Nature
was »till In process of modifying her
creation, and, ns Is always the case,
the young retained the atavistic dis
abilities, Just as the young of flatfish
swim like other fishes and have oue
eye on either side of the head. The
modifications In the physiological
structure come with maturity.
Tlie adult monster*» MaeBenrd
learned, had already acquired the abil
ity to exist for nn Indefinite period
upon the surface of the sea. While
the young hud gills, these became mod
ified into a species of lung, capable of
brenthtng both above and under wa
ter. This was a new adaptation of na
ture. MacBeurd hurried back to the
deud monster, nnd found the lung al
ready purtly formed. That satisfied
him thut Musterman was un accurate
observer.
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Practice Economy.
Tbe sane standard, "Eat enough food
and no more, rigidly followed, would
reduce greatly food bills in many
homes and at the same time tend to
Improve the physical condition of all j
members ot the household.
The submarine sinks. Paget's
party take to the water In diving
suits. They make tome amaz
ing discoveries.
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Soy Beans as Food.
Soy beans, introduced into the Unit
ed States more than one hundred years
ago primarily for use as a forage crop,
are in reality one of the most nutri
turns of the bean family when used as
human food, ueeordlng to specialists ol
the department at agriculture.
TRAP NEST SIMPLE
They Are of Much Value in Weed
ing Out Poor Layers.
MUCH LABOR IS NECESSARY
artlcularly Important in Increasing
Egg Yield of Flock by Facilitating
Selection of Best Breeding
Specimens.
(Prepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture.)
Altbougii trap nests are not used ex
tensively, because of the large amount
of labor required to operate them,
when their use Is practicable they are
of value In weeding out poor layers
und increasing the average egg yield of
a flock by facilitating selection aud
breeding.
How Trap Nests Are Used.
One nest should be provided for four
to five hens kept In flocks of fifty or
more, while more trap nests per hen
are necessary in smaller flocks. The
hens are banded with numbered bands,
and a record is kept of their egg pro
duction. The nests should be visited
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TRAP NESTS USEFUL IN DETECTING "BOARDERS."
at least three times dally, and prefer
ably four or five time», frequent trips
being especially necessary when the
hens are laying freely and during hot
weather.
The trap nest shown ira figure I may
be attached to the underside of the
dropping board, with the front facing
the pen and arranged so 1 that It can
be easily removed, or It may be placed
on the walls of the pen. If the nest
Is placed linger the dropping hoard, the
latter will serve as a top for the nest,
and the rear of the nest may be of
wire to allow good ventilation in warm
weather. If the nest is placed on the
wall, slats or wire should bo- inserted.
from the front of the nest to She wall f"
at a »harp angle to prevent the hens
from roosting on the nest.
When the hen enters this nest, her
bnck raises the door (c) (Fig. 2),
which releases the catch or trigger (n)
and allows the door to shut. The
catch should be set so that Its edge
just holds the door, which position Is
regulated by the screw or nail at the
lower Inside edge of the catch. A
washer should be placed on the screw
(d) between the catch and the side ot
the nest to prevent this catch, from
sticking. The guard (b) around the
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catch keeps the nesting material away
from the catch. The linigth of the
cat»*h which supports the door and the
triangular notch In the door »lay be
vttrleil slightly for very small or very
large hens.
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partitions, t'J inches wide by 19 inches
long, enough Ij-inoh boards IS) »4 inches
, long, laid lengthwise, to cover the top,
j tuu*k and bottom, and 1 strip 39 H
i Inches long and 3 inches high to insert
I in the nest to hold the nesting material
j sway from the door. Nall the top.
hack «ud bottom to the ends and partl
( wo Fig. 2), Insert the 3-Inch
strips In the nests, and make the guard
((,). nailing It to the left side of the
nest. Borg a hole In the catch (a)
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the screw between the catch nnd the
side of the nest. Place a screw at the
lower edge of the catch to stop It
hold the door,
when set, so that the catch will just
Make the di»ors (c) of %-lneh. ma
terial. 12 Inches by 6 Inches, and cut a
triangular much in the center 4 Inches
wide. Put two screw eyes in the top
of the doors and bore holes in the front
of the nests two inches below the top
(inside measurement), through which
a 3-16-inch wire Is run to support the
doors.
Attach a narrow strip to the front
of the nests for the hens to jump upon
when entering the nests. Place a but
ton or block of wood on the front of
each partition to hold the door when
the nest is closed.
If the nests are to be placed directly
below the dropping board a wire top
should be used on the nest, except for
a live-inch strip of wood on the front
edge of the top to stiffen the nest.
HEALTHY FOWLS ALL WINTER
of
Nests Should Be Cleaned and Sprayed
Same as Dropping Boards—Dip
Birds for Lice.
If strong, healthy birds are placed
in a cleun, sanitary house in autumn
there is no reason why they should
not stay healthy all winter. The nests
should be cleaned up and sprayed the
same as the dropping boards. If the
fowls are harboring body lice they
should be dipped before the weather
gets cold. Choose a fine, sunny day
for this nnd have the dip warm (not
hot). Do the work early in the morn
ing and the birds will suffer no bad
or
effects from their wetting. They are
not half as apt to take cold from a
dip thus applied as from running out
In a cold ratn on a cloudy day. If
there are mites In the building they
must be attended to by spraying with
a, good dip or a liquid whitewash.
Mites do not bother much In winter,
but they should be eradicated before
winter just to make sure that they
are gone before spring crowding du
ties tempts one to neglect the work
too long.
Of course the provident .ponltryman
needs not to be told that all cracks
and leaks in the henhouse must be
before winter- comes ; windows
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DETERMINING AGE OF SHEEP
When Animal Is Four Years Old Can- !
not Tell Age by Teeth—Be
Careful In Buying.
After a sheep is four years old,
eaunot tell by the teeth about the age.
However, one who is purchasing
sheep should see to it that It has not 1
l«»st any teeth, or that the teeth have i
not become long and shoe-peggy in ap
pearance.
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ÄPERUNA
An Efficient Remedy
Compounded of vegetable
drugs in a perfectly appointed
laboratory by skilled chemists,
after the prescription of a suc
cessful physician of wide ex
perience, and approved by the
experience of tens of thous
ands in the last fortydive
years.
Peruna's Success
rests strictly on its merit as a
truly scientific treatment for
all diseases of catarrhal symp
toms. It has come to be the
recognized standby of the
American home because it has
deserved to be, and it stands
today as firm as the eternal
hills in the confidence of an
enormous number.
What Helped Them May Help You
Get our free booklet, "Health
and How to Have It," of your drug
gist. or write direct to us.
The Périma Company
Columbus, Ohio
Many a so-called smart man smart*
because of Ills alleged smartness.
PROVEN SWAMP-ROOT
AIDS WEAK KIDNEYS
The symptoms of kidney and bladder
troubles are often very distressing and
leave the system in a run-down condition.
The kidneys seem to suffer most, as al
most every victim complains of lame back
and urinary troubles which should-not be
neglected, as these danger signals often
lead to more dangerous kidney troubles.
Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root which, so
many people say, soon heals and strength
ens the kidneys, is a splendid kidney,
liver and bladder medicine, and, being
an herbal compound, has a gentle heal
ing effect on the kidneys, which is al
most immediately noticed in most cases
by those who use it.
A trial will convince anyone who may
be in need of it. Better get a bottle from
your nearest drug store, and start treat
ment at once.
However, if you wish first to test this
great preparation send ten cents to Dr.
Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y., for a
sample bottle. When writing be sure and
mention this paper.—Adv.
Making a Call. (
A little boy of five went with bis
mother to make a call. Tlie lady of
the house, who was very fond of
children, told him she intended to
ask .hls mother to let her have him.
"pon't you think your mother would
buy you?" she*asked.
he said, "you haven't got
Co,"
ey enough."
low much will it take?" she asked,
'hree hundred pounds," he an
ted promptly, "and you haven't got
much."
think I could manage it," she
I ''If I can, will you come to me?"
<>." he said, with decision. "Mam
kouldn't sell me anyhow. There
five of us, and mamma wouldn't
to break the set."—London Tit
I Scheme of Food Swindlers.
Itioning has its drawbacks. Re
F from Holland state that the in
fty of the food swindlers knows no
Ids. Within the last few weeks
» have gone to private houses rep
uting themselves as Inspectors un
Ihe distribution law, and by some
sibit* pretext obtained the resi
K food cards or carried off all the
[able provisions.
kropenn factories each week make
It 16,000,000 pSunds of artificial
hr with coconut oil as a base.
jooklyn, N. Y„ In November spent
fVlOO on new buildings.
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The Rich Flavor
Grajfe*Nuts
Is due to the blend
ing of malted barley
kith whole wheat floue
wheat alone does not
possess this rich flavor
The wonderfully easy
digestion of Grape Ms
also partly due to
the barley for the
barley contains a
digestive which
wheat lacks.
There's a Reason"
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Grape-Nuts